F# Weekly #21, 2020 – MS Build Announcements

Welcome to F# Weekly,
A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# 5 and F# tools update
• Welcome to C# 9.0
• Announcing .NET 5 Preview 4 and our journey to one .NET
• Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI
• Introducing YARP Preview 1
• Using Visual Studio Codespaces with .NET Core
• ML.NET Model Builder is now a part of Visual Studio
• Windows Forms Designer for .NET Core Released
• Introducing Project Tye
• Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 now available
• Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.6 is now available
• Releasing Today! Visual Studio 2019 v16.6 & v16.7 Preview 1
• Improvements to XAML tooling in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7 Preview 1
• Expanding Visual Studio 2019 support for Visual Studio Codespaces
• Windows Terminal 1.0
• Uno Platform 2.4 – macOS support and Windows Calculator on macOS
• Announcing end of support for .NET Standard 1.3 in AWS SDK for .NET

JetBrains .NET Days Online 2020

• Formatting F# Code by Florian Verdonck
• Learning F# by Designing Your Own Language by Alexey Golub
• Build a Highly Performant Interservice Communication with gRPC for ASP NET Core by Riccardo Terrell

Microsoft Build 2020

• Book of News
• Empowering every developer, with Satya Nadella
• The Journey to One .NET – Scott Hunter, Scott Hanselman
• C# Today & Tomorrow – Mads Torgersen, Dustin Campbell
• Build native apps for any device with .NET – David Ortinau, Maddy Leger
• Modern Web UI with Blazor WebAssembly – Steve Sanderson, Daniel Roth
• on-demand session catalog

Videos and Slides

• Episode 24: Trivia – Immo Landwerth
• .NET Design Review: Connection Abstractions
• Xamarin Podcast: Essentials 1.6, Forms 4.6 and Contact Tracing

Blogs

• Introducing Feliz v1.0 – Zaid Ajaj
• Introduction to Functional Programming in F# – Part 10 – Ian Russell
• Build Developer Conference: What’s New with C# and F# – David Ramel

F# vNext

GitHub projects

• Shmew/Feliz.Recoil – Fable bindings in Feliz style for Facebook’s experimental state management library recoil.
• Shmew/Feliz.Plotly – Fable bindings written in the Feliz-style for plotly.js
• matthewcrews/flips – Fsharp LInear Programming System
• AngelMunoz/WinRTFs – WinRT + F#

New Releases

• Fleece 0.8.0
• Fleece.SystemTextJson 0.8.0
• WebSharper 4.6.2
• Myriad 0.2.7
• Waypoint 0.2.0
• Npgsql.FSharp.Analyzer 3.5
• Dapper.FSharp 1.7
• MessagePack.FSharpExtensions 2.0.0
• FSharp.Control.Reactive 4.3.0
• Bolero 0.13 (Blazor 3.2.0)

That’s all for now. Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #20, 2020